Description: Everything is reversed in looking-glass land, an inside-out world that lurks just behind the mirror. This 1872 sequel by Lewis Carroll to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, rejoins the eponymous heroine as she climbs over the mantel and through the glass to enter a fantastic realm of talking flowers and paddings madcap kings and queens, and strange mythological creatures. Brooks and hedges divide the green and pleasant looking-glass land into a chessboard, on which Alice find herself a pawn in a bizarre game involving such nursery-rhyme characters as Humpty Dumpty and Tweedledum and Tweedledee. Promised a crown upon achieving the eighth square, Alice perseveres through a surreal landscape of amusing characters who per her with riddes and humorous semantic quibbles and regale her with memorable poetry, including the off quoted "Jabberwocky." This handsome, inexpensive edition of one of juvenile literature's great classics features the original John Tenniel illustrations.

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